Vernacular Photos
1898 General Garcia Cuban Revolution Celebration w/ Flags Photo
$1,500.00
Exceptional collision of energy, historic import and composition. Identified reverse “General Garcia Funeral celebrations.” García’s family had been fighting for independence and abolition since the beginning of the 19thc first in Venezuela and then Cuba....
1910s Folk Art Americana Weathervane Factory Workshop Interior Photo
$900.00
Full bodied American eagle weathervane posed for the photograph and a running horse in progress behind, the other two men work on cupolas. Region not known. Body shapes of both animals suggest either E.G. Washburne...
19thc Studio Photo Collage w/ Folk Art Chalk Family Portrait
$1,500.00
Die-cut w/ vibrant hand coloring. Folky drawn carpet and back drop design. Removed from the original walnut cove frame and tannic backing, photograph has been bagged on archival board. Measures 11.75 x 14.75". ...
19thc Ohio Stoneware Pottery Labor Folk Art Jug Photo
$900.00
Trade Stimulator Stoneware jug and the factory craftsmen. Logan Pottery / Manufacturers of Stoneware and Clay Specialities / Logan Ohio. Very good condition with soft focus / blur faces at left and minute...
1930s Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Discovery Photo
$2,000.00
Believed European (between World Wars), eyes on the photographer and breasts carefully positioned for the camera. Likely women hired at a brothel to pose - cheap backdrop, work shoes and dirty feet betray the...
Victorian Child British Colonial India Nanny Cabinet Photo
$800.00
Strikingly disparate dress is heightened by the familiarity and warmth. Ayah is not young, but beautiful in an indigo sari with intent gaze. Boy identified Guy Langford Yonge and signed W.J. Bell of Torrington...
19thc Egyptian Slave African Woman Tribal Scarification Cabinet Photo
$1,000.00
The pose focused on her facial scars suggest more of an inventory photo than a portrait. Milky eyes and open mouth seem more hesitant than anything that could be construed positively. Though abolition began in Egypt...
1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages
$2,000.00
Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a...
1900s Cleveland OH Elevator Operator Miniature Labor Photos
$500.00
SCARCE subject.
(2) mounted photos (3 x 3.5"), (4) miniatures measure 1 x 2" to 2 x 3" and news clipping.
1910s Sepia Gothic African American Railroad Labor Train Car Photos
$1,200.00
Startling tones and composition, text book images. Earl M. Tucker reverse (almost certainly the Caucasian man), found in NC. ____ Sight size 5 x 7". One photograph shows edge chipping but mounts suffer heavy damage. ...
19thc Religious River Baptism Sepia Photo
$1,200.00
EARLY evidence and a strong anchor to any collection on the subject.
Dates to the 1880s. Measures 6 x 8.25" w/ damage. Please refer to photo details.
1900s Chinese & Native American Western Social History Photo
$1,200.00
Compelling portraits of under represented cultures in the development of America's Western history.
Nice condition with only smudges at margin and minimal corner chipping.
Mount measures 5.25 x 7.25".